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I downloaded an raw SD card image that has two partitions.

It caused some file system errors when I tried to dd it directly into an SD card. I am not sure if the card is defective or the image.

Is there a way to examine this image without writing it to a physical card? Like trying to mount the partitions separately or checking the tables?

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This answer on ServerFault suggests:

use losetup to get a /dev/loop? device, then use kpartx on it to create dev mappings for the partitions in the image file.

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You could try:

mount -t type -o loop ./image /mnt

where "type" = fs type and "image" is the name of your downloaded file

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Thinking about it, that may not work with an image containing multiple partitions. – Tog Nov 16 '10 at 9:53
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you'll have to specify the offset of the single partition to mount with something like "mount -o loop,ro,offset=XXXXXXXX imagefile /mnt" – Mr Shunz Nov 16 '10 at 10:02
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Wouldn't losetup work to specify an offset? – Tog Nov 16 '10 at 11:47
you're right... with losetup you can set an offset to the partition to create a loopback device that can be simply mounted with mount /dev/loopX /mnt – Mr Shunz Nov 18 '10 at 11:55

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